BD CEO also expresses “frustration, anger and dismay over the racial inequality and injustice.” Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) this week pledged $10 million this week to fight racism and injustice in the U.S. In a response to the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., and Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Ga., J&J […]
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Medtech sterilization business faces battles on many fronts
As the EPA prepares to issue new regulations for the carcinogenic sterilant gas ethylene oxide, the industry must decide whether to invest in expensive emissions-control upgrades, switch sterilization processes or — in the case of some small sterilization companies — exit the business. Nancy Crotti, Managing Editor In the next few months, the U.S. Environmental […]
Federal agencies will control the fate of medtech’s most-used sterilization method
The fate of the medical device industry’s most widely used sterilization process lies in the hands of the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA gave the medtech industry mixed signals in November about the gas used to sterilize billions of devices annually. The agency said it might seek to cut industrial emissions of ethylene oxide (EtO) […]
